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A report that the LA County commissioned suggests that many jail inmates would benefit from diversion to community-based mental health programs.

New research shows how using a fake rubber hand may enable people living with obsessive-compulsive disorder to overcome their contamination fears.

A team of researchers has conducted the first study of how baby and adult brains interact during natural play, and they found measurable connections in their neural activity. In other words, baby and adult brain activity rose and fell together as they …

Scientists have identified a brain circuit that drives fruit flies’ ability to see in color — and found that it bears a striking resemblance to the circuitry behind our own capacity for color vision. This research will not only fuel new investigations…

Scientists eavesdropped on neurons and discovered a stable signal driving common movement skills like typing sneakers. They were able to preserve and reconstruct these patterns in what is a major advance for neuroprostheses for paralyzed patients.

The older we get the more our brains will find it difficult to learn and remember new things. The research group used a method to stimulate the small pool of neural stem cells that reside in the brain in order to increase their number and the number of…

Specialists estimate that a small increase of only $1 in the state minimum wage could have prevented thousands of suicides between 2009–2015.

A preliminary study has found that when young, healthy men were deprived of just one night of sleep, they had higher levels of tau — a biomarker for Alzheimer’s disease — in their blood than when they had a full, uninterrupted night of rest.

How much do our diets influence our mental health? A recent review assesses the evidence and concludes that much more research is needed.